Quotes from H. G. Wells

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

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